After a little while we drove all around the town again and passed the St. John's College on King George Street. It was built in 1696 and is a Great Books college. It used to be called King William's School, after the King of England. It is a very beautiful school with fine old buildings and old trees and beautiful lawns.

We went on home. I was very tired, but I enjoyed the trip. I got in the tub with bath salts out of the glass bowl container with woolen eyes and eyebrows on it that my friend Cammy made for me as a present and Sally Swan, my beautiful floating toy for my bath, made out of white and blue plastic. I soaked and rested. Then I went to sleep.

I'm glad we took a lot of trips and drives to interesting places. My parents bought the car in August 1949, and I went back to school in September. In October, we found the house on Providence Road in Towson. We moved in around November 1, 1949. It was in Loch Raven Valley.

Mr. Laird and Mr. Rock were the builders, and they had almost finished the house, except for painting the bedrooms. Mine was painted blue to match my blue and white French Provincial furniture, and Mommy's and Daddy's was painted green to go with their Chinese Chippendale bedroom set that Granddaddy gave Mommy for her eighteenth birthday.

Granddaddy gave me beautiful porcelains of squirrels and rabbits and girls and boys and an orchestra of Hummel children to decorate my room. He gave me a tiny little tea set in china.

He paid to have Mommy's evergreens moved from the house with the brook, and she was grateful to him. The man who moved the evergreens for us put some of them in the far back of the lot where there were lots of oak trees.

There are oaks in front, too, and a beautiful tall birch tree with whitish bark. He put the biggest evergreen of all on the top of the slope near the road. He put the little one I called my evergreen-it was so perky and green and I liked it best-on the slope next to the biggest one. They were so close that they grew into each other later on and leaned on each other all the time.

There were lots of acorns all over the ground because of the oak trees. Acorns are fun to gather. There are lots of squirrels because of the acorns, and they make homes in the tall trees. There are many different kinds of birds, some with beautiful songs, and some of bright colors too, red especially.

Mommy and I loved evergreens and flowers. Granddaddy loved them, too. Around his house he made rock gardens and a big pool with water running over rocks. Ferns grew around it and all kinds of woodland plants.

When Mommy was at home with him before I was born, she went out at six o'clock in the morning with him to woods in the country of Maryland to find wild rock plants and flowers. They brought them back and planted them together. She had her own little rock garden with a pelican standing next to her little pool with lilies and goldfish in it. She studied all about plants and fish. The fish lived under the ice in the wintertime.

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